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Silicon Valley Pay Cuts Ignite Tech-Industry Covid-19 Tensions - 15 octobre 2020
Bay Area staffers move to less-costly locales to work remotely in pandemic, triggering cost-of-living salary reductions and stoking debate
Tech workers fleeing the San Francisco Bay Area to work remotely amid the pandemic are facing a new reality : pay cuts.
Over the past several months, Covid-19 has shaken (...)
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Palantir Expected to Be Valued at Nearly $22 Billion in Trading Debut - 28 septembre 2020
Bankers have told investors stock could start trading at around $10, sources say
Palantir Technologies Inc. is expected to fetch a lofty valuation in its transition to a public company despite an unusually aggressive governance structure, in the latest sign of investors’ voracious appetite for new shares.
The (...)
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Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive - 11 septembre 2020
The social-media giant internally studied how it polarizes users, then largely shelved the research
A Facebook Inc. FB 0.94% team had a blunt message for senior executives. The company’s algorithms weren’t bringing people together. They were driving people apart.
“Our algorithms exploit the human brain’s attraction (...)
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Ireland to Order Facebook to Stop Sending User Data to U.S. - 11 septembre 2020
Privacy regulator’s order to suspend the company’s data transfers to the U.S. cites concerns over American government surveillance practices
A European Union privacy regulator has sent Facebook Inc. FB 0.94% a preliminary order to suspend data transfers to the U.S. about its EU users, according to people familiar (...)
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Facebook Executive Supported India’s Modi, Disparaged Opposition in Internal Messages - 1er septembre 2020
Some employees said the sentiments and actions conflicted with the company’s longstanding neutrality pledge
A Facebook Inc. FB -0.16% executive at the center of a political storm in India made internal postings over several years detailing her support for the now ruling Hindu nationalist party and disparaging its (...)
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Facebook Says Apple’s New iPhone Update Will Disrupt Online Advertising - 26 août 2020
The social-media company says Apple’s privacy changes will affect its Audience Network business, which connects users’ Facebook identities with their off-platform activities
Facebook Inc. said privacy changes in Apple Inc.’s AAPL -0.64% latest operating system would cripple its ability to place personalized ads and (...)
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In Chinese Classrooms, AI Monitors Students’ Every Move - 25 août 2020
A growing number of classrooms in China are equipped with artificial-intelligence cameras and brain-wave trackers. While many parents and teachers see them as tools to improve grades, they’ve become some children’s worst nightmare.
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Drugmakers Turn to Data Mining to Avoid Expensive, Lengthy Drug Trials - WSJ - 18 janvier 2020
Drugmakers are trying to win drug approvals by parsing vast data sets of electronic medical records, shifting away from lengthy, and costly, clinical trials in patients.
Pfizer Inc., Johnson & Johnson and Amgen Inc. are among the drugmakers that have submitted the data-mining analyses to the U.S. Food and (...)
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How the 1% Scrubs Its Image Online - 16 décembre 2019
Prominent figures from Jacob Gottlieb to Betsy DeVos got help from a reputation management firm that can bury image-sensitive Google results by placing flattering content on websites that masquerade as news outlets
Jacob Gottlieb was considering raising money for a hedge fund. One problem : His last one had (...)
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China’s Efforts to Lead the Way in AI Start in Its Classrooms - 24 octobre 2019
A fast-spreading use of artificial intelligence in schools from kindergartens to universities provides the country with an unrivaled database
These days, many students at Jinhua Xiaoshun Primary School in eastern China begin their lessons not by opening textbooks, but by putting on headbands.
After a two-minute (...)
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Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents - 15 août 2019
Employees embedded with cybersecurity forces in Uganda and Zambia intercepted encrypted communications and used cell data to track opponents, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation
Huawei Technologies Co., the world’s largest telecommunications company, dominates African markets, where it has sold (...)
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FTC Antitrust Probe of Facebook Scrutinizes Its Acquisitions - 3 août 2019
Regulators examining whether social-media giant bought companies to neutralize possible rivals
The Federal Trade Commission is examining Facebook Inc.’s acquisitions as part of its antitrust investigation into the social-media giant, seeking to determine if they were part of a campaign to snap up potential rivals (...)
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You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook. - 25 février 2019
Wall Street Journal testing reveals how the social-media giant collects a wide range of private data from developers ; "˜This is a big mess’
Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps, including when they want to work on their belly fat or the price of the house they checked out last (...)
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Amazon’s New Microwave : "˜Alexa, Please Defrost My Chicken’ - 26 septembre 2018
New offerings include Alexa-enabled chip that manufacturers can install to control basic appliances
In a bid to control the smart home of the future, Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 2.08% is offering makers of electronics a small chip that would let people use their voice to command everything from microwaves and coffee (...)
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Satellite Project Draws Airbus, SoftBank, Bill Gates as Investors - 30 avril 2018
EarthNow plans to launch some 500 small satellites to offer video coverage of the world
Airbus SE EADSY 0.05% and two of the world’s most recognizable tech billionaires, Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates and SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Executive Masayoshi Son, propose to build and launch some 500 small satellites (...)
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Life Inside China’s Total Surveillance State - 12 février 2018
China has turned the northwestern region of Xinjiang into a vast experiment in domestic surveillance. WSJ investigated what life is like in a place where one’s every move can be monitored with cutting-edge technology. Video : Clément Bürge/WSJ ; Image : (...)
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Facebook Discloses Another Metrics Mishap Affecting Publishers - 26 décembre 2016
Several media companies experienced traffic shortfalls exceeding 10% due to error
Facebook continued its series of metrics mishaps, disclosing in a blog post Friday that it undercounted traffic from some publishers who posted content to its Instant Articles platform.
ComScore, a measurement firm that has (...)
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Facebook Wants to Help Sell Every Ad on the Web - 27 mai 2016
The social network will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites
Facebook has set out to power all advertising across the Internet.
To that end, the social network and online advertising company said Thursday it will now help marketers show ads to all users who visit websites and applications in its (...)
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EU Lays Groundwork for Antitrust Charges Against Google - 2 avril 2015
Regulator seeks permission to publish complaints against Internet giant in long-running probe
Europe’s competition regulator is preparing to move against Google Inc. in the next few weeks, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday, setting the stage for charges against the U.S. Internet-search giant in a (...)
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The Technology that Unmasks Your Hidden Emotions - 4 février 2015
Using Psychology and Data Mining to Discern Emotions as People Shop, Watch Ads ; Breeding Privacy Concerns
Paul Ekman, perhaps the world’s most famous face reader, fears he has created a monster.
The 80-year-old psychologist pioneered the study of facial expressions in the 1970s, creating a catalog of more than (...)
